Katha: 25 books

Here are seventeen award-winning stories which set new standards for short story writing in India. Coming in the wake of two highly successful earlier volumes, Katha Prize Stories Volume 3 once again celebrates new and established writers - the pioneers and the path-breakers - who have looked with great...

Another year, another Katha Prize Stories. And this time, twelve stories showcasing different shades of human experience through a silent song and a wild dream, through a mute keyboard and a city so grim ... The best fiction from 2001-2003 in ten Indian languages, selected by a panel of distinguished...

... An anxiously awaited yearly event, watched alike by discerning readers in India and abroad as well as by writers, translators and literary journals.- The Economic Times"... a rewarding experience for the reader."- Outlook Katha's continuing attempt to foster and encourage the best in Indian short...

The Best of India Translated- India Today For a whole decade, Kathas search for excellence has brought to readers some of the best stories being written in our myriad languages. This year, to celebrate the crop of the 90s, Katha invited five giants of Indian cinema to choose the best for us. And here...

The conception and execution of the Katha Prize Stories series ... represents a unique and special moment in Indian publishing history. The Economic Times... a wonderful idea and it works. Indian Reviews of BooksThis years volume is a compelling collection of sixteen stories from the linguistically exciting...

These seventeen stories, winners of the Katha Awards, recreate the fascinating fabric that is India, urban and rural. Woven into them is a range of emotions - from the platonic to the oedipal, the humorous to the poignant, the simple to the intricate. You will find here writers both new and established...

Here are nineteen brilliant stories from Indian writers, both new and established, which explore an exciting range of themes and situations from the fantastic to the quietly realistic, the enigmatic to the expected, the melodramatic to the humorous. Seventeen of these stories were first published between...

A rewarding collection of regional language literature. - India Today An accessible celebration of the Indian experience in all its diversity."- Indian Express"A Literary achievement."- The Sunday Mai"Each volume is a collector's item ..." - The WeekIn eight years, the annual Katha Prize Stories has...

Here are seventeen award winning stories whose common claim is only to excellence. The accent is on the inherent heterogeneity of contemporary India, an India constantly negotiating contradictions and coming-togethers, in fiction that both creates and breaks stereotypes. There is no attempt here to yoke...

... an anxiously awaited yearly event, watch alike by discerning readers in India and abroad as well as by writers, translators and literary journals.- The Economic TimesPrize Catch ... the best of India translated.- India Today Here, for the fifth year in succession, are outstanding stories, handpicked...

Love is in the air. Come ... discover caring and sharing, loving and being, in nineteen different ways.Katha Prize Stories 9 brings you some of the best stories from sixteen languages, specially chosen by eminent writers, critics, scholars, and translated with flair. Real stories, they explore the magic...

With Bani Basus latest novella on Kolkata, and M Mukundans on Kalarippayattu, Katha honours the novella for the first time. They add distinction to six other outstanding stories in this annual volume. The best among those published during the last two years, we hope these stories - handpicked by scholars,...

Hear are 14 award winning stories whose common claim is only to excellence. Selected initially by the editors of respected journals and magazines across India and published by them during 1987-1990, these stores have been nominated for the Katha Awards by people whose knowledge of their respective languages...

A Katha Trailblazer volume, this collection brings together three works of Ambai that explore the issue of female fertility. C S Lakshmi, who writes under the pen name Ambai, strikingly approaches the issue to unveil how women are oppressed and suppressed in the guise of love.